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(Message started by: TheNumberScott on Aug 19th, 2007, 12:32am)
Title: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 19th, 2007, 12:32am
A man cuts something in half, and then puts it right back together again, good as new, without using tape or glue.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Grimbal on Aug 19th, 2007, 12:47am
[hide]A baker kneading bread dough?[/hide]
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 19th, 2007, 12:50am
no
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Grimbal on Aug 19th, 2007, 12:59am
[hide]An illusionist performing the "woman cut in 2"?
(You know they don't really cut them in 2, don't you?[/hide]
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 19th, 2007, 1:04am
no, this thing really was cut in two.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by gotit on Aug 19th, 2007, 5:27am
I think it was a magnet
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by towr on Aug 19th, 2007, 7:12am
I'll go with pie. It wouldn't taste any worse for being cut in two, so it'd still be as good as [when] new (assuming there isn't too long a time between the 'newly baked' and 'being cut' stage.)   ;)
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by JiNbOtAk on Aug 19th, 2007, 7:27am
Play Doh.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by denis on Aug 19th, 2007, 9:29am
He used Carve.exe to cut a PC file in two. He then joined them together into its original form using the /j switch of Carve.exe.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by mikedagr8 on Aug 19th, 2007, 2:34pm
Atoms of course. Conservational Law of Mass, so he had to be cutting atoms. As if you guys didn't get that. ::)
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Grimbal on Aug 19th, 2007, 2:50pm
There are these things in quantum mechanics where one particle goes 2 ways simultaneously and can merge into one particle later.

Another idea: Exodus comes to mind.  But it wasn't a man, was it?  So maybe Bruce and his tomato soup in "Bruce Almighty"?

http://florian.net/pic/misc/bruce.jpg
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 19th, 2007, 4:56pm
no to all. This took me probably 20 minutes of yes or no questioning to figure it out. And even once I had narrowed down every aspect of it through those questions, it still took me a couple minutes to figure out what they all added up to.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by denis on Aug 19th, 2007, 7:52pm
OK lets tray to break it down a bit:

Was it something edible?
Was it a solid?
Was it a liquid?
Or maybe something in between (Gellatenous or Colloidal)
Was it a gas?
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 20th, 2007, 7:48am
I'd say it's a non-edible solid.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Aug 20th, 2007, 10:13am
A pile of marbles.  Or a pile of anything else for that matter.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by denis on Aug 20th, 2007, 10:15am
Gallium is a solid metal at room temperature and  melts at 85 degrees farenheight.

Cut it in half. After you cut it in half, just warm up both ends with your hands  which will melt the ends that you can put together again without glue or tape.

Alternatively, you can warm the two pieces up in an regular oven a low temperature . When its all liquid, make it into one single block again and let it cool.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 20th, 2007, 12:26pm
you might call it a pile, I suppose, but I wouldn't.

interesting idea denis, but this object is much more common for someone to have than a block of galium.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by denis on Aug 20th, 2007, 12:30pm
2 Lego Blocks or something with velcro?
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by gotit on Aug 20th, 2007, 12:41pm
A heap of sand?
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 20th, 2007, 1:24pm
nope
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by thecow135 on Aug 20th, 2007, 6:58pm
life =)
just when it seems to be breaking it all starts to fit again
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by denis on Aug 21st, 2007, 7:16pm
Was the solid object hard or malleable?
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 21st, 2007, 9:51pm
I'd say it's somewhat malleable.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by JiNbOtAk on Aug 21st, 2007, 10:50pm
Again, Play Doh.  :P
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22nd, 2007, 12:04am
Again, no. :P
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Grimbal on Aug 22nd, 2007, 12:39am
A pair of shoes.  The man just makes a step.

And welcome to page 2.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22nd, 2007, 12:53am
no, but that is in a way closer.

This is something that is actually cut in half. I wouldn't consider, nor do I think anyone else would, taking a step to be cutting something in half.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Grimbal on Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:13am
Hm... when it gets back together, is it just like before or a bit more shuffled?  ::)
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:23am
Grimbal, your answer trumps them all.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Aurora on Aug 22nd, 2007, 2:14am

on 08/20/07 at 12:26:47, TheNumberScott wrote:
you might call it a pile, I suppose, but I wouldn't.


If you had to let a 7yr old cut it, then you probably would. ::)
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by JiNbOtAk on Aug 22nd, 2007, 2:28am
Ahh, if the man was David Blaine, he could cut it exactly in half using only one hand.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by mikedagr8 on Aug 22nd, 2007, 2:34am
If it was Chuck Norris, it'd cut in half and wouldn't be able to put back together again.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Aug 22nd, 2007, 7:24am

on 08/22/07 at 00:53:45, TheNumberScott wrote:
This is something that is actually cut in half.

This seems to contradict the intended answer.  If a deck of cards is allowable, why not a plate of sliced bread?
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by TheNumberScott on Aug 22nd, 2007, 7:28pm
because "cut the tower of sliced bread" isn't a term. "cut the cards" is.
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Aug 23rd, 2007, 6:29am
I agree that "cut the cards" is a commonly used phrase, but you did say that the answer would be something that was actually cut in half.  Personally, I think that if a pile of cards being separated into two pieces is considered actually cut in half then a pile of anything separated into two pieces would be considered the same way, as actually cut in half.  The commonality of the phrase "cut the cards" doesn't seem to change anything.

But that's just me.  :P
Title: Re: Cut in half
Post by CowsRUs on Aug 29th, 2007, 6:49pm
Then play-doh could work, but it's not the answer he had in mind.


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